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DEATH OS ALL SIDES.
THRILLING ADVENTURE IN A PENN
SYLVANIA LOGGING CAMP.
Engineer Fennel Finds Himself Shut Up
In an Engine Room with an Overworked
Boiler and Two liig Rattlesnakes His
Rapid Action Saves His Life.
News of a thrilling adventure had by-
Patrick L. Fennel, who recently left his
home, in Montgomery, 20 miles east of
Williamsport, Pa., to work in Susque
hanna county, has been received. Fen
nel, who is an engineer, went up into
the lumber woods of Susquehanna coun
ty to run an engine in a sawmill. When
he arrived ii: camp, he found that the
sawmill had been in disuse about ten
years. Among the machinery left in the
old mill were a boiler and stationary
engine. They were in bad shape, but
Fennel got them ready for business.
The other day Fennel fired up to test
the boiler and engine, and then went
away to another part of the mill. He
was delayed some, and returned to find
the boiler was generating steam with
startling rapidity. He rushed into the
boiler house, the door closing after him
witli a bang. The door fastened on the
outside with a hasp and drop hook, and
the jar caused the hook to di-op into the
staple, making Fennel a prisoner. Al
though tested to only 100 pounds, the
steam gauge showed that the boiler had
already generated 110 pounds, and - the
quivering hand on the steam gauge wa3
mounting higher and higher. That the
boiler was liable to explode at any mo
ment Fennel well knew. He glanced at
the safety valve and was startled to see
that it had become fastened in some
manner and refused to work.
He was about to climb up to loosen
the refractory safety gauge when his
eyes beheld a sight from which he drew
back. Around the safety valve, just
where he was about to grasp it with his
hand, was coiled a big rattlesnake,
while two other reptiles of the same
species lay on the floor of the boiler
house. They had evidently been drawn
from their hiding places in the wall or
floor of the old boiler house by the
heat. The quivering hand of the steam
gauge told Fennel only too plainly that
the pressure on the boiler was becom
ing terrific. But he could not pass the
serpents and reach the boiler, neither
could he get out of the door. The only
means of exit was a small window, and
to reach this he would have to pass the
snakes. Near by stood an iron bar used
in clearing out the fire, and grasping
this he crushed the head of the serpent
nearest him. The other snake coiled
about his leg and struck viciously, fas
tening its fangs into his rubber boot. A
blow with the bar crushed the snake on
the safety gauge, and then came a strug
gle to remove the one around his leg.
Pressing dov.n the bar the snake coiled
around it for a second, leaving two
folds around his leg. Quick as a flash
he snapped the snake in two, and then,
with the iron bar, knocked off the safe
ty valve.—New’ York Herald.
A WOLF CURE.
Alarming Scheme Proposed to Rid Wyo
ming of Ravenous Beasts.
Wyoming ranchmen for a long time
have been trying to devise schemes for
exterminating the wolves which destroy
thousands of young cattle yearly. Boun
ties on scalps w y ere found to be too slow.
Emil Stritz has finally arranged a
plan of inoculation that he says will
soon destroy all the w’olves in the west.
He has a poison which, when introduced
into the blood of a wolf, produces hy
drophobia within ten days. He has cap
tured a number in traps and has experi
mented with them.
He has released a number of them,
and wolves showing signs of hydro
phobia have been seen in various places.
The inventor is working to have the
Stockmen’s association contract with
him for the extermination of all the
wolves in the state.
The only obstacle to the agreement is
the young man’s inability to give the
stockmen assurance that the wolves will
not in turn bite the stock and spread
the disease all over the range, with the
most disastrous results. —Chicago Rec
ord.
Bradley Martins to Entertain Royalty.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin will
now T attain the highest of their social
ambitions.
They may have suffered criticism
from the pulpit and were made to feel a
trine uncomfortable over the cost of
that expensive ball, but w’hat matters
this criticism now?
This ball has opened a way for greater
social conquests, and the Bradley Mar
tips will soon be heard from in England,
when the Prince and Princess of Wales
are expected to visit them at their Scot
tish estates.
The Bradley Martins will sail for the
scene of their new conquests on March
11.—New York Evening Journal.
Aboriginal Caves In Kentucky.
Two caves of a size to make them im
portant were found in Kentucky last
week. One is in the Chaplain river bot
toms, a few miles southwest of Law
reuceburg, and the other on the old
Ellis place, near Milldale. The first con
tains many stone relics, and some dis
tance from the entrance has a nicely fin
ished room of ordinary dimensions. It
is walled with stone that has been
dressed, and the floor is composed of
solid rock. The work is doubtless that
of the prehistoric mound builders. The
Ellis farm cave also has a huge room
and, it is said, has an iron door at the en
trance. —Cincinnati Commercial Trib
une.
Dollar In a Potato.
Thomas McNamara of Lexington,
Ky., while assorting potatoes the other
afternoon, found a peculiar looking tu
ber, which he laid aside. After he was
through work he cut the potato open
and found safely embedded within a sil
ver dollar with the date “1885” en
, graved thereon.
A
A REMARK AISLE RUN.
GREAT SPEED OF A TRAIN FOR A
LONG DISTANCE.
Wonderful If Not Unprecedented Time
From Chicago by a Train Hired by a
Father to Reach a Dying Son—Up Grade
1 Mile In 300 at 57 Miles an Hour.
Now’s came from Denver the other
day of a remarkable railroad run made
by a special train which arrived at Den
ver on Monday morning from Chicago
and made a record w’hich appears never
to have been equaled for such a distance.
The train had been hired by H. J.
Mahan, a broker, who was trying to
reach the bedside of his 21-year-old son,
who lay dying at Denver.
Death won the race, for Mr. Mahan’s
son expired just about the time his train
entered the borders of Colorado, and
four hours before he arrived at Denver.
The train traveled over the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy road to Pacific
Junction, and from there over the Bur
lington and Missouri road to Denver.
Everything along the road was cleared
for its passage. The total run is figured
to be 1,020 miles, according to the rail
roads’ owm tables, and the distance was
run from station to station in 18 hours
and 52 minutes. This is a little more
than an average of 64 miles an hour for
the. w’hole trip.
This is not only the fastest run on
record for such a distance, hut it also
appears to have been one of the very
few such trips ever made with a private
train, if not the only one.
To realize what such a flying trip
means it might be well to compare the
run with some of the long railroad runs
that are looked upon as record makers.
The New York Central and Hudson
River railroad claimed to hold the rec
ord until recently with the trial trip
made from New York to Buffalo on
Sept. 14, 1801. The train consisted of
an engine and two Wagner palace cars
and a Central private ear, and weighed
altogether about 460,000 pounds.
The ruii from New York to Albany,
143 miles, was made without a stop in
140 minutes, that of 148 miles from
Albany to Syracuse in 146 minutes, and
that from Syracuse to East Buffalo, 146
miles, in 147 minutes 34 seconds.
Including the stops, the whole time
of the trip w’as 489)4 minutes, and the
distance was 436)4 miles, or a trifle less
than 60 miles an hour. Since then this
•road made anew record, on Sept. 11,
1895, when, with a train weighing
861,000 pounds, the same run was made
in 6 hours, 51 minutes and 56 seconds
at an average speed of 63.54 miles an
hour.
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad claims to have beaten this
on Oct. 24, 1895, with a special run
from Chicago to Buffalo, a distance of
510.1 miles, with a train weighing 304,-
500 pounds.
The trip was divided into five stages,
and the first, of 87.4 miles, was made
at the rate of 61.38 miles an hour; the
second, of 133.4 miles, at the rate of
64.24 miles an hour; the third, of 107.8
miles, at 60.96 miles an hour; the
fourth, of 95.5 miles, at 66.99 miles an
hour, and the fifth, of 86 miles, at an
average rate of 72.91 miles an hour.
The total distance was covered in 8
hours, 1 minute and 7 seconds, actual
time from station to station, which gave
an average speed, including stops, of
63.61 miles an hour.
Remarkable as these results were, it
would not be fair to compare them with
a run of twice the distance of the longest
of them, for as distances increase the
difficulties of making high speed also
increase. Grades, adverse winds, bad
pieces of track and all the other ele
ments which work against high contin
ued speeds multiply usually in a sort of
geometrical progression to make diffi
culties.
To give some idea of t his, the greatest
runs which the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad has recorded for
trips across the continent will offer a
fair basis of comparison.
The fastest of these was one with the
China and Japan mails from Vancouver
to New York by way of tli Canadian
Pacific, the Rome, Watertown and Og
densburg and the New York Central
and Hudson river roads.
The distance traveled was 3,212
miles, and the time was 3 days 12 hours
and 42 minutes, or an average speed of
37.9 miles an hour.
The reason that private trains are sel
dom sent out at high speeds will be ob
vious if one considers the conditions
that would be required to run them. In
the first place, every train on the road
that would be likely to be in their way
must be side tracked, and in addition to
these the dozens or perhaps hundreds of
freight and yard trains, which usually
work along the lines by simply keeping
clear of the times of scheduled trains,
would all have to be run by special or
ders to keep them out of the way of a
fast special.
The loss of time thus occasioned to
train crews would amount to a large
sum, and this would have to bo added
to the railroad man’s usual estimate of
about 75 cents a mile for the actual
cost of running such • a train. It is
doubtful if railroads would care to run
such trains even at double that price,
which would make such a run as Mr.
Mahan’s cost $1,500 or more.
The most remarkable part of his run
was in the last 300 miles, during
which the grade goes up with a rise
which finally, at Denver, is a full mile
above the starting point.
The speed made up this grade is said
to have averaged nearly 57 miles an
tour. —New York Sun.
Easy to Fill.
An Englishman with more money
than education recently sent the follow
ing order to a bookseller: “I have 60
feet of shelving. I want 10 feet of
poetry, 10 feet of history, 10 feet of'
science, 10 feet of religion, the same of
novels, and fill up the rest with any kind
Df books. ”
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 7, 1896.
TOWERS OF SILENCE.
HOWTHE FOLLOWERS OFZOROASTER
BURY THEIR DEAD.
Said to Be One Cause of the Spread of the
Bubonic Plague In Bombay—The Bead
Are Placed In the Open and Cateu by
Vultures.
The bubonic plague, which now is
ravaging India and has gone as far on
the way to Europe as the island of Kam
aran, in the Red sea, is attributed by
medical men to a number of diverse
causes. In a consideration of possible
causes and certain propagators of the
pest the famous towers of silence, which
might more exactly he named towers of
death, should not fail to receive atten
tion.
These towers, of which there are 115
scattered throughout India, serve devo
tees of the Parsee cult in place of bury
ing grounds. This body of religionists,
one of the most curious and at the same
time one of the most civilized in India,
is given to the worship of fire in all its
forms. At Bombay, where their colony
numbers 47,458 persons, and which, it
is to be noted, has suffered more than
any other Indian city from the pesti
lence, the Parsees have buiit seven of
these tow’ers, one after the other, for the
inhumation, so to speak, of their core
ligionists. These seven towers, or dak
mas, are grouped at the summit of Mal
abar hill, which overlooks the sea at
some miles’ distance from Bombay.
Contrary to what one might suppose,
Malabar hill is a delightful suburb, well
built up with beautiful cottages, the
dwellers in which seem to live in no
fear of the hideous dakmas near by.
In point of construction these towers
are enormouß masses of masonry, built
to last for centuries. The material is
black granite, heavily whitewashed.
Their height is altogether out of pro
portion to their diameter. The highest
of them is 90 feet in diameter and 35
feet high. A stone parapet 14 feet high
surrounds the platform on which the
bodies are first laid. Thus all that passes
within is invisible from without, but
the tower is open to sun and rain.
In the center of the platform is a well,
15 feet in depth and 45 feet in diameter,
into which are cast the bones of the de
vout after the vultures have stripped
them. From the bottom of this bone
well, down through the masonry of the
platform, run four canals at right an
gles, each pair to the other. Each of
these ends in a pit filled with charcoal,
the intention being thus to purify the
teachings from the bone well. The plat
form above is divided into 72 compart
ments or open burial cases, disposed
along radiuses of the tower circle. These
lie in three concentric circular rows,
separated by stone gutters, which lead
to the canals and wells below. It may
be observed that the number 3 is sym
bolic of the 8 precepts of Zoroaster, and
the number 72 of the 72 chapters of the
Yasne, one of tho sections of the Zend-
Avesta. The outer circular row of stone
biers serves for the men of the Parsee
faith. To the row next smaller are con
signed the bodies of the women, while
the inner row is for the bodies of the
children.
The bearers of bodies to the interior
of the towers of silence take many pre
cautions to avoid spreading contagion
without. After depositing the body on
its slab they bathe and change ever}’
shred of clothing before issuing from
the tower, and the Parsees stoutly deny
that their funeral customs arc in any
wise responsible for the spreading of
contagion.
“Our prophet Zoroaster, ” they say,
“who lived more than 3,000 years ago,
has taught us to consider the elements
as,the symbols of divinity. Earth, wa
ter and fire ought never to be polluted
under any circumstances by contact with
putrefaction. Naked we came into the
world; naked we go out. It is needful
that the particles of our bodies be de
composed as rapidly as possible, that
our mother, the earth, may not be de
filed. God sends the vultures, and surely
they accomplish their work more rapid
ly than do millions of insects in the
case of burial. From the sanitary point
of view no system can be better than
ours.”—Monde Illustre.
WORLD’S BESTTHIN ARMOR.
Remarkable Plates at Indian Head Tliat
Shot Could Not Crack.
The navy department is securing a
constant improvement in the quality of
its armor plate. A test made at Indian
Head the other day demonstrated that
it now possesses the best thin armor at
least in the whole world. A four inch
plate representing some of the side armor
of the battleship Kearsarge, that was
well up on the bows, was fired at with a
five inch gun. Not long ago a shot was
calculated as able completely to pene
trate an armor plate of 1)4 times as
thick as its caliber. In other words, a
five inch shot would penetrate a plate
7)4 inches thick.
This four inch plate, however, not
only kept the shot out, but it smashed
it up, and the only mark left on the
plate was slight dishing in the center,
not more than half an inch deep. This
passed the plate. Then another shot was
taken at it to ascertain the power re
quired to perforate the plate. This was
accomplished only by giving the shot
the high velocity of 1,98.5 feet per sec
ond, and even then the plate was not
cracked.—Washington Post.
Oliio Mammoth Cave.
A large cave in the vicinity of Flat
Rock, 0., was partially explored for the
first time a few days ago. The explor
ing party found that the cave is divided
into many chambers, the largest being
at least 1,000 feet long and 100 feet wide.
In another stalactites of crystal clear
ness were discovered. Each chamber
was lower than the former one, and
after going 3,000 feet progress was
blocked by a stream of water about 50
fw't in width, which is as cold as ice.
With limited supplies the party was un
able to explore farther.
i
MONTHLY
SUFFERING.
'J'housands of
women are i
troubled at
| monthly inter- \V4BB
vals with pains
in the head,
b a c k, breasts,
shoulders,sides
hips and limbs.
But they need
These pains are symptoms of
dangerous derangements that
can be corrected. The men
strual function should operate
painlessly.
ta&dß
makes menstruation painless,
and regular. It puts the deli
cate menstrual organs in condi
tion to do their work properly.
And that stops all this pain.
W’hy will any woman suffer
mouth after month when Wine j
of Cardui will relieve her? It I
costs fi.oo at the drug store.
I Why don’t you get a bottle
to-day?
For advice, in cases requiring
special directions, address, giv- I
ing symptoms, “The Ladies’
Advisory Department,” The
Chattanooga Medicine Cos., j
Chattanooga, Tenn.
••
Mrs. ROZENA LEWIS.
of Oenavllle, Texas says:
“ I was troubled at monthly Aervals
with terrible pains in my head „nd back, I
but have been entirely relieved by Wine 1
of Cardui.”
WHAT MEN SHALL WEAR.
Committee Appointed by Merchant Tailors
to Secure Uniformity of Style.
Five members of the Merchant Tai
lors’ National Exchange, which con
vened recently at Cleveland, will have
more to say about the way American
gentlemen will dress than all the tailors
in America combined. These five are
Frank Schwab of Chicago, Jules C. Weiss
of New York, B. R. Merwin of New
York, Robert Stewart of Philadelphia
and William E. Jones of Philadelphia.
They constitute the special committee
whose duty it shall be to report upon the
fashions of the coming year.
This committee has prepared a book
of fashions. It will be placed in the
hands of members of the exchange ex
clusively, and its suggestions will be
followed by members of the exchange
as far as it is possible to do so. Mem
bers of the exchange have decided to
make the styles of New York and San
Francisco as nearly alike as possible.
In this connection Thomas O. Denny
of The Herald of Fashion of New York
stated that the American was the'best
and most fashionably dressed person in
the world.
“You will find American fashion
plates in every European capital, ” he
said. ‘ ‘They may be found in Tokyo,
Yokohama and in remote quarters of the
globe. We no longer go abroad for our
styles, but the foreigner comes to Amer
ca for his style of dress. The Prince of
Wales is no longer a leader of style, and
if he follows the English fashions he is
following an American style. In Eng
land the fashionable shoulder is called
the American shoulder. Styles are not
made by tailors, but by the people. Tai
lors take their patterns from well dressed
men. They cut clothes 'according to a
man’s build, his walk, his complexion,
and thus they establish styles, and others
follow. ”
BROKE HIS OWN RULE.
Speaker Reed Smokes a Cigar In the Cap
itol Corridors.
Some days ago notices were put up in
the house wing of the capitol prohibit
ing smoking in the corridors, the public
offices, statuary hall and the elevators.
Employees of the house were specially
prohibited from smoking. The door
keepers and the capitol police were in
structed to rigidly enforce the order.
The members of the house, of course,
do not pay the slightest attention to the
regulations, and some of the police say
that inasmuch as the order is not signed
by any one they do not believe they
could rightly arrest a man or boy should
he insist on smoking.
“I happened to be standing at the end
of one long corridor the other day,”
said a policeman, “and suddenly I saw
a large body turn into that same corri
dor and come my way. I thought there
was a chance to call a man down for
violating the orders. Ho came rocking
along, had an unusually big cigar in
his mouth, and you would have thought
it was a tugboat from the clouds puffed
out. I was about to yell, ‘Smoking is
not allowed in this building,’ when to
my great astonishment I discovered it
was Speaker Ret and himself. I felt like
telling him he was breaking the rules,
but on second thought concluded he was
too big and mighty for n e to joke with,
so I did not even pretend 1 saw him. ”
New York Sun.
What Hitlers I urn.
li< discussing the incomes that profes
sionals get, C. M. Murphy says that
leading racing men call readily earn
from $5,000 to sn,ooo a year, including
salaries and prizes. The average salary
paid ranges from SI,BOO to $2,000 for
the season of six-months, while in some
cases a crackerjuck will receive as high
as $3,000 or $3,500. The salaries paid
to professionals are less than when class
B racing was in existence. Another re
duction iu the rider’s receipts is due to
the fact that, while in years past they
would receive $2,000 a season for using
a certain make of wheel, from S3O to
$35 per week from tho firm and a salary
from saddle makers, manufacturers
now sign men to ride wheels us equip
ped.—New York Sun.
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llie “Pemy-wlse id Pound fMtonmw • =
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